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Apocrypha
the ground breaks too so please tell me my name even if my fullmouth stings of feathers the loudest thing the …
The Absence
Margaret Boyle woke up and her left incisor was loose. In her dream, she was crushed under a giant unspecified citrus …
Brief Elemental Things
A conversation with essayist, editor, and translator Eliot Weinberger
Robert Atwan likened the essay form to a solitary, restless individual; Montaigne believed essays could only be written in paces; Hilton …
Four More
OnceChildhood Dismissing worries quickly—like a professional palm reader, you never and always talk to me about bees, their outlines wasted on …
Four Poems
Harmony in Red I cut my foot at the museum, Walked around afraid Trailing blood I looked at the wall between …
Three Poems
here we collide Worry me at the tail edge of torn seams, Locked into conversation with the neighbors again About the …
Picture Shows for Roadkill
content warning: animal death, non-consensual intimacy Martin is smoking on the bed with his elbow buried into his thigh and head …
Skeletons
I remember when I was Boy and mother was Mother Bells chimed at noontime on streets made asphalt sang songs it …
My Professor told me that since the Beginning of Time Humanity has been concerned about Daisy
This Poem Has Been Written Before on october 2018 in the united states of america
Don’t sing love songs, you’ll wake my mother She’s sleeping here right by my side And in her right hand a …
Four Poems
I was 12 by the river When I was 12, my uncle took me To the river, so we could Skip …
Health Services
“Oh, honey.” The paper crinkles when I hop up on the shiny patient bed and face the nurse, whose nametag screams …
Do You Even Rift?
Hellnoser Forums Rifter discussion and community news. We can deal with demons, but don’t be a dick. --- Quick Guides for …
David in the Forest
I used to have eggs and toast for breakfast. That was great because I’d go to bed each night thinking about …
Three Poems
into its own fixless dew-thighed-today i set out to find my missing vowels with me i have only the things you …
Strangers Among Us
Story for a dweller, a stranger, and a daughter
Land’s end. But there’s water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue. The end of the world. This is not …
Walks
My slanted strides put pressure forward Air in the space where we fog (our windows) collapsing downhill Letter paper folds over …
Let’s Run to the Womb and Back
the small explosion did it, skyward you tumbled too. chapped limbs smacking sunrays good morning. shoulders of honeycrisp apples, the bitten …
Eat 'em
I’ve figured it out The trick is eat everyone Eat ‘em all Put ‘em in your belly They can’t be mean …
Carnivore
Sometimes I lie on the bed and my body lists towards your softer side and I pretend that it is your …
Untitled Poem About Nazbol
*** yekaterina volkova: singer, actress, former lover of eduard limonov back in his day he dedicated many poems to her they …
Buccaneers
“Tell me a story,” he says. They’re sitting crouched in the corner of the room. Amanda has upended a table so …
The Trials of Odysseus and Me but Mostly Me
Perhaps it was the milk of the moon I drank tonight. Rivers poured vehemently. Poseidon. The sea was not as cold …
Embody
I spend the first week of May writing about bodies. I sit at library desks for two hours at a time …
Pissed Pants Academy
It was the day I met Paula Abdul on an airplane, and she was very beautiful, very glamorous, and she was …
Two Poems
content warning: body horror, sexual violence Princess Pāramitā I thought I told you to stop coming here. You make me sick, …
Reading Comprehension
Inspired by Arundhati Roy content warning: sexual harassment A Note to a Safety Presentation by a Commissariat de Police de Paris …
Twuz Dark
As the soon-to-be hero grows older it ventures further from the peasant village. The peasants fear for it a little. They …
Poems from the Series Postcards for Mira
“It’s 8:54 a.m. in Brooklyn it’s the 26th of July and it’s probably 8:54 in Manhattan but I’m in Brooklyn” -Ted …
Etymology for Catastrophe
Amid early springtime’s hesitant snowmelt a planet rearranges into loving explosions, confessing no objective but to glower, then to fade. Sprained …
the girls who will train you
have red nails and paws. have straight hair and red aprons. are getting married. are twenty two. dropped out of beauty …
thunderstorms mock me and so does the concrete
(for 3 days i have known but expected nothing) i watched every minute bring itself in fractions i waited 15, (but …
Term
I. October After the eviction, we returned to the old house once more to collect the dishes we had left in …